Back when he was still at Florida State, Jimbo Fisher moved his team’s Senior Day ceremonies to the second-to-last game of the regular season. That’s why the first-year Texas A&M coach is all for doing the same thing in College Station.

During his weekly press conference Monday, Fisher explained why he supports the Aggies’ decision to stage Senior Day against UAB on Saturday rather than when LSU comes to town Nov. 24.

“I think that’s an elective thing to do either way. It’s the last home game, and how you want to do it. I guess that’s how they want to do it here, and I don’t have a problem with it. I did it at Florida State that way. I watched one time on a situation it was a Florida-Florida State game. I watched one of our players was a phenomenal player whose family was going through some trial and tribulations with health of one of their — I’m not going to mention who it was. And I watched him see her for the first time in a long time that year because they had went through some serious chemotherapy and things like that. And I watched, emotionally, how he got. It was just such a huge rivalry game, and I think you add the rivalry to it and all those types of things, and the emotion of a last home game and things. I elected back then to make an adjustment to the next-to-last home game to take some press off rivalry games, which, LSU and us is a huge rivalry game, in my opinion. One of them, here. And I think it’s still a Senior Day, still recognizing all the greatness you’ve had here. So it’s something I did back then. But their election to do it here, they were doing it, and that’s fine with me. That was not my call. That was what they had done.”

Texas A&M (6-4) may still be in for a tough game against UAB (9-1), which is on track to win Conference-USA. Fisher also spoke highly of the Blazers on Monday in advance of the teams’ 7 p.m. ET kickoff Saturday.